{"id":409522,"date":"2026-09-24T18:58:07","date_gmt":"2026-09-24T18:58:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/409522\/"},"modified":"2026-09-24T18:58:07","modified_gmt":"2026-09-24T18:58:07","slug":"police-pursuit-ensues-after-man-escapes-hialeah-hospital-steals-car-in-parking-lot","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/409522\/","title":{"rendered":"Police pursuit ensues after man escapes Hialeah hospital, steals car in parking lot"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"c-paragraph\">HIALEAH, Fla.  \u2014 Police officers, deputies, and Florida Highway Patrol troopers followed a man driving a black sedan on Thursday in northwestern Miami-Dade County. <\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph\">The pursuit was after a shirtless man with green pants pulled a woman out of her car at about 10 a.m. in the parking lot at the Palmetto General Hospital at 2001 West 68th St., in Hialeah, according to a witness. <\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph\">\u201cThe suspect approached a female victim exiting her vehicle and forced himself inside her car and fled the scene,\u201d Lt. Eddie Rodriguez, a spokesman for the Hialeah Police Department, said. <\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph\">Shortly after 1 p.m., the man drove on the wrong side of road several times, and passed a school bus. Law enforcement performed several maneuvers to try to stop him. <\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph\">Shortly after 1:10 p.m., law enforcement hit the car twice until spinned out, and law enforcement approached, guns drawn. <\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph\">Shortly before 1:15 p.m., deputies pulled the driver out and handcuffed him at Northwest 17th Avenue and 79th Street. He was barefoot, shirtless, and wearing green pants. <\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph\">Detectives asked anyone with information about this or other cases to call Miami-Dade County Crime Stoppers at 305-471-8477 to remain anonymous.<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph b-article-body__copyright\">Copyright 2026 by WPLG Local10.com &#8211; All rights reserved.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"HIALEAH, Fla. \u2014 Police officers, deputies, and Florida Highway Patrol troopers followed a man driving a black sedan&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":409523,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[15],"tags":[225,227,226],"class_list":["post-409522","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-hialeah","tag-hialeah","tag-hialeah-headlines","tag-hialeah-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/409522","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=409522"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/409522\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/409523"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=409522"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=409522"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=409522"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}